Barack Obama's Call to Renewal Keynote Address

Cinders Some highlights/points: "...including the need for religious people to translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values during public debate." I like where Obama said Keyes was trying to tell the people that "Jesus wouldn't vote for Obama" and that whole speech. "I can't impose my own religious views on another. I was running to be the senator of Illinois, not the minister of Illinois." "Religious people do not have a monopoly on morality." "I would rather have someone who is grounded in morality and ethics and who is also secular affirm their morality and their ethics and their values without pretending their something that they're not... But what I am suggesting is this. Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square... Our law is by definition a codification of our morality... If we progressives shed some of these biases we might recognize some of these overlapping values that both religious and secular people share when it comes to the moral and material direction of our country." "We are no longer a Christian nation. At least, not just. We are a Buddhist nation and a Jewish nation and a Muslim nation..." I loved what he said about how he can't pass a law against abortion just because it's against HIS religion, he would need to find a way how he could show it was morally wrong by ALL faiths, including those who have no faith. Some words may be a little off. I tried to quote as directly as possible.